You know, I was suspicious when Thatcher died on April 8th...

CLEARLY Ayu is older than she looks. Duh-doy.

You never can tell how old these asian women are :P

^ So true, my Japanese tutor is 43 but looks 30. I nearly fell off my chair when she told me that.

Relating to the other conversation, my tutor knows who Ayumi is, but told me that she was too old to listen to her when she first debuted. xD I guess she would have been 28 when A Song for XX was released and thought the music was aimed more at teenagers perhaps...

I just both the amazing Moon/blossom and H singles (all of them!)
Ahhh... life is good!
And I forgot that the concert starts today!...

it seems to be lacking!....

Can't stop listening to how beautiful you are. I never realized what an amazing song this was till now, really touches my heart :heart

^ I realized that late too~ :laugh

Uhm.. Since I got my copy of LOVE again I'm enjoying it more and more than before.. but I still find the chorus of snowy kiss a bit.. I don't know.. boring?
Song 4 u is becoming one of my favourite instead~ :laugh

What changes would you make to the ABL setlist? Here's mine..

So I was so surprised that I found Ayu Trance 1 and 2 WITH slip cases!!!

Ayu got me spending. I've just realized that her Tell all book costs 3500 yen and I bought it like I ought to buy it no matter how much does it cost.

I remember how I was hesitating about Mika Ninagawa's Helter Skelter book with Erika Sawajiri's photos. It cost about 2800 yen I believe.. And I didn't buy it :thud though it contained gorgeous photos!

Oh ayu, what are u doing :laugh

Ayu's music is helping me so much after the passing of my golden retriever sister. Ayu will always be amazing!

Need a summer single so bad! Typical summer song & summer ballad. Need this...

I was having a look at Kitty Brucknell's Twitter account today (she was a contestant on X Factor in the UK a couple of years ago) and notice she had uploaded the Sparkle PV to her account and was tweeting that she loves the song and is obsessed with Ayumi.

Thought it was so cool when I saw it!

mi|kshake~

That work with photoshop is so bad. Ayu's pic is clearly cut from other photo because her right shoulder cuts off very weirdly. :D I hope people didn't believe this to be true. ;)

On the other news, my fandom is gone again. Damn. Oh well, time to take a long break again and wait for the boom to hit me hard.

http://i.imgur.com/7macELt.jpg
So i found this pic thats supposed to be Ayu, but I've never seen it before.. Where is it from..? Is it even her? I mean, it could be one of those freakishly alike models.

I think it may be from when she was in the US sometime and she was taking pics with fans? Maybe around the filming of Last Angel?

mi|kshake~

^
^
that pic taken in LA, where she shot a Love song and Last angel music video with the ex-husband hehe.
she posted on her Team Ayu if im not wrong~

Ayuma's been looking so good lately, I'm feelin good about it!

Im hoping we get a release sometime this summer!!!
We need a new summer song!!

Tell ~LOVE is all~ / all ~LOVE is Tell~

Yup, with covers shot in Bali.

Just found this pic on tumblr, is it recent? I think I have never seen it before.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/a420a4220...sze6o1_500.jpg

it's from January this year

TELL ALL needs a pv

one that is made by someone who can actually make interesting ones tho, so like she needs to call up her old pv makers from like a few eras ago

I dont think ive ever seen ayu with 'heavy duty' makeup lol

man i wanna g to a concert SOOOOO bad... lol... I was thinking of going to the one during golden week, but I didnt want to take a bus to the other side of the island! (im pretty far north)

so random, but suddenly am thinking bout whether one day Ayu will get pregnant or even have a child? i wanna see lil' Ayu lol

^Been wondering the same too, will she be a mother someday? I just can't imagine her with a motherly image :laugh but I remember back in the day when JEWEL was released and many people suspect she's pregnant XD I was excited

^
what?? really? haha but why? im not in Ayufandom at that time so i dont know why

just remember when CDL 11-12 she didnt dance much for Sparkle and everyone been speculating that shes pregnant lol,n turned out after that she announced bout her divorce, totally turned off lulz

^ I guess she wore some dresses that made her look like pregnant??

I remember when Panasonic Lumix CM (bgm: alterna) was out, ayu was wearing pink dress which made her look like pregnant.

Ayu should get pregnant and announce her pregnancy like Beyonce did. The media would go crazyyy.

But in all seriousness, I wonder too. :/

^
i can imagine the japanese press chasing her for the news!

but really i think shes going to be cute with her baby bump :love

haha, but still shed mentioned that she herself like a kid and never want to grow up, just how can she be someone's mother then :thud

I can't ever see Ayu with children. xD

Her lifestyle seems very selfish. She seems more like the cool Aunty type. :D

after a week keeping on replaying " Tell All, " Haru yo koi", "Tokyo", Im currently addicted to Acoustic Orchestra and Piano versions of Ayu songs. So sad that these versions re available for songs up to album I am .. only. Wish Avex or some companies would make piano versions for latest albums.

oh yeah, and i always realize that whenever shes been surrounded by childrent,she seems hhmm quite awkward maybe lol, just look at Sweet Seasons and Beloved making of :P


btw, im so in love with Ever Free now! :thud how can i ignore this song before :thud and discovered that ithad 3 versions,

Ever free (ori version)

Ever free HALs mix 2000

Ever free (acoustic piano version) can anyone tell this is from which album?

It seems ever free is from vogue single, it even has a short PV. I know this for long but just in love with it after listening to the piano version a few days ago, so beautiful song. Previously I was just impressed with it because of dark-side PV and lyrics ^^.

I only know about the Acoustic Orchestra version, the album is ayu-mi-x III Acoustic Orchestra Version. An instrumental version of the Ac. Orchestra is also available on that album.
If I remember it correctly, it's not a PV but screen video from a tour, 2000 or 2001 I think.

ever free is such a sad song. :(

She certainly had a lot of internal conflict in 2000. I wonder how it feels to say goodbye to the person you were and truly never be able to return to it as she couldn't...

Probably the best concept she's ever done. It's completely ethereal, yet at the same time relatable.

Also, I always found the ever free tour video kind of creepy. I mean, in the SEASONS PV it was only implied as to whose funeral she was attending. ever free is so explicit...

Perhaps this is why we may never see it performed live.

Yea ever free Video from Concert Tour 2000 is creepy. It's sad when it turns out to be her funeral but it turns super creepy when everyone changes into that cult followers and Ayu is their leader lol the concept is really cool though, I'm dying if she uses that concept again

And for the song herself, I agree that the song maybe so personal and so sad that she doesn't want to sing it live. I'm okay with it, but I want another cool video like Concert Tour 2000 XD

^ I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds that video creepy.

I just had an interesting thought. Imagine if she dressed Shuya up as herself, and went all Shuya-Ayu on stage whilst singing ever free? I mean, he does look like her...(*insert my name's WOMEN PV*)

That would definitely refresh the whole Shuya-Ayu sequence. :lech

yes it is from Vogue single! ^^

thank you! the HAL's mix 2000 is from SEASONS single

you guys made me wanna Concert Tour 2000 now :shakehead

and please that Shuya would surely ruin the whole concept :grumpy

^Concert Tour 2000 (especially Dainika or Part 2) is really cool for that age aside from the ridiculous outfit and the extra platform boots that she wore :laugh. Daiichika was a bit boring in terms of stage act, well it's her first ;) But I love how monochrome got an extended instrumental at the end and the immature instrumental for the dancer interlude.

I can't help but feel motivated to do something when Born to be... starts playing.

man I really wanna go to a concert! but its looking like more and more that i wont be able to go till July!!!

Been listening to Ladies Night a lot recently - what an amazing pop song!

I much prefer it to the Sweetbox version (or original?) and I like Sweetbox's old stuff.

mi|kshake~

dying downloading Arena hotel love song 2012 for a week already, still 18 parts to go T_____T

Anyone can tell me about what this ranking is ? Ayu is number 1 ! It's not a recent poll but I just come to see it on Twitter ^^

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BI3kS9nCEAIv6ja.jpg:large

If I'm not wrong, it seems to be a ranking about the Top 10 singers with most live performances.

Thank you !! :)

Wow, I alwas thought it was a cool video but never bothered to look for the story. Thats really... dark, but it makes so much sense connecting it to the Trilogy.

Getting back into my Ayu listening by playing Party Queen.
If it wasnt for nostalgia, I would care less about this album. But it came at the right time.

^I'm also getting back to Ayu by listening some of the old songs, and God her music are so powerful and epic :luv2

I had an ayu dream like three-four days ago, what I still remember is that we had a super long chat and it's really fun to chat with her lol and I told her before she went home that "Ayu, I want you to perform..." and she turns her back at me, saying "It was, right? gotcha!" :laugh

I want a single...

ever free + rainy mood = magic

http://www.rainymood.com/watch?v=sfplBpXxajQ

(though I wish that the rain-sound was louder..)

I need a single in my life...
MAN!...

Same here, I want her to release new single
Not a maxi single masquerading as mini album :P

I need a new and awesome summer song that makes me happy and not think of relationships. I'm looking at you, You & Me...

yeah a summer song, i really miss her summer-ish awesome PV like Blue Bird and Fairyland

i dont think we will get any? shes been relaxing in oversea with friends every week, no sign of recording in studio

Edit: never mind
It's MOON

i love moon! lol

I haven't listened to that song in forever and I heard the instrumental on YouTube
I was like wtf is this, I know this song. It took me a hot minute to realize that it was moon

lol. that was the song that got me back into ayumi after I was let down my guilty and then next level followed by rock n roll...
now I love next level and rock n roll however...
guilty is nother story ll tgether... lol

hm dont know where to post, but anyway,

i just saw this https://www.facebook.com/uchiyama.maroka

Maro changed his fb name into kanji and the pics he uploadee omg!!!! HOT!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...type=1&theater

^ eh! he also gave a link to a Youtube video!! :O

upd: I just saw it!! and he says he'd like to pursue a solo singer career!!! OMG!! he says he had a photosession in LA in February, that he'll open an official website this month! he said he'll sing, not because he is good at singing, but he just wants to speak about his thoughts and "strong feelings"! :O

God, while watching this video, I couldn't help thinking how he and ayu resemble each other.... like the manner of speaking and etc.

thank you! i saw the YT vid and was wondering what he was talking about!and from his new official website i kinda know that hes going to debut as an artist! woaaah! :O



yea²! you are right! somehow he really looked like Ayu i mean look at how he talked and the motivation from him, he looked so fresh and ready to move on forward, im so glad for him <3

His official web: http://www.marokauchiyama.com/

^ Sorry, but I dont see how this is ayumi related....

anyways.
is anyone going to her next concert?
Im still trying to get tickets for the Aomrio shows if anyone knows anything?

^
yeah i know and sorry! but im just not sure whether to have a new thread but still he's Ayu's ex-dancer and ex-bf hihi

I wish Ayu's discography was still available on iTunes USA... I have a sudden need to have all of her music videos! Only have 25 of them...

Wait wait wait hold up they broke up?? How come I haven't heard this?????:(:tired:shakehead:thud

What the hell did Ayu educate him? I wonder if they r still together, but I don't like him to imitate his (ex) gf this way (wth with speaking his thoughts and "strong feelings"). I feel this way, how shameful for both (after showing his face all in her album, haizz just wonder did Ayu want to show off the whole world "hey! my new bf here!")

So, the whole time he was planning a new career and leaving the troupe and her ever clever marketing team came up with them dating and breaking up so he could leave. What genius!! Further destroy her reputation so you can publicize your new act. Way to go Avex, always one step ahead of everyone else in proving to be idiotic.

wow this story remind me a little britney & kevin federline lol

Take the tin foil hat off.

i sid that about ayumi and mannie! lol... but I think mario fits the bill more... he is a dancer.
And It has never been announced if they have broken up or not.

Yeah they don't bother too much with the breakup announcements. They probably deem it as overkill since they never announce any real relationship to begin with.

AND I LIKE MY TIN FOIL !!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you don't believe everyone who is speaking their thoughts and strongs feelings through pop music is imitating Ayu...

Chill out. :cool Quit acting like avex controls every aspect of ayu's life! :headache

"It's-a me, Mario, one of ayu's dancer!"
:P

As much as people said that it doesn't necessary mean a strategy from avex, I just can't help to see that there is something, and imo it doesn't really help ayu.

That maro facebook pic...
He better not be an Asian Guy With Guitar (like the White Guy With Guitar, but you know)
This whole dating thing has been messy

Interesting to hear Maro is going to be pursuing a solo career.

Made myself a playlist of Ayumi rock songs and am really needing some new ones I think, although I am enjoying my playlist!! More like Alterna or Guilty please! (And I also need for Tell All to be released on an album so I can add that to the list)

mi|kshake~

No I dont mean that, if that's someone else then no prob, no overthinking, but he just suddenly switched to be a singer after relationship w Ayu, say smt like that, even smt like homeless for a month in an oricon article. just cant help thinking that way,.. or is it just a coincidence? I even doubt his relationship w Ayu is abused for promoting by avex, clumsily :(

It's strange they have removed all the "don't like" on the video lol

Hey, has anyone heard anything about the time ayu was "fat"(or at least, considered fat by the Japanese) - my japanese friend told me that Ayu had gained a lot of weight some years ago, but no matter what I searched for I couldn't find any proof, so I asked her today if she could find anything (maybe theres something to be found when searching in japanese?)

^ years ago makes me think of AT09 where she looked a bit chubby.
I noticed it especially in the Rule outfit~ :laugh
Anyway I don't know anything for sure, so I'm pretty useless.. ;_;

^^I've discussed it in the A BEST LIVE thread I guess
Yes, she went chubby a few times. Even now from the latest tour outfit photos she looked a big chubbier especially her thighs.
She looked chubby when she promoted JEWEL I guess which lead to the pregnant rumor thingie, then as Livey~ said she looked chubby some time in AT09 especially in Rule because the costume kinda wrapped her up lol

I did a presentation on my favorite J-Pop artists in Japanese class and obvs Ayu was one of them. One of my friends liked her songs and wants me to burn a CD for her. So, my question is, which of Ayu's CDs should I use to introduce my friend to her? PS, I have no idea what type of music she likes.

A Complete... :P

What songs did u showed them?

^I showed JEWEL in class but I think she looked up more songs at home.

Same here...
Its kind of fishier than the A BEST 2 covers that he leaves and then comes back as a singer??? And um saigondansu can pass me a hat because I do want to cry conspiracy on this one.

^I didn't know there's something with A BEST 2 covers...I thought A BEST had sth about the cover

^ i said fishy cuz of the mega fishlips lol. LOVEagain's playbutton cover needed to be a first press.

Ayu did look so chubby in AT09 :)), especially in her casual costume for the encore part :)). She s always kute anyway :D

:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao:roflmao
I didn't realize that

There's been worse duck lips :P

COUNTDOWN LIVE 2012-2013 A～WAKE UP～ has been uploaded on ayu's YT channel! :D It's only 1h 31min long (the DVD is over 2hs long in total), so I think they cut off the encore part but still. It's in 1080p even!

My friend liked Step You and Fairyland so I would go with (miss)understood.

mi|kshake~

^ That album or Memorial Address
Something that covers a wide variety of genres without sounding too try-hard.

Yeah!! I know! I've just finished watching it! the DVD version is much better than the TV version.

Watching it now! Ayu is such a great performer!

gonna watch the concert!!
Somebody download it!


Edit: my god, she sounds like a NASAL MESS. Like she's been sick and plugged up for centuries. oh well, it's so nice to be watching this!!!!!